The magnificent seven    (video)    (intro)

 

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1. Ring! Ring! It’s 7:00 a.m.! Move yourself to go again,

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    cold water in the face brings you back to this awful place.

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   Knuckle merchants a. you bankers,too,must get up a. learn those rules,

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    weather man and the crazy chief, one says sun and one says sleet.

 

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2. A.m., the f.m. the p.m. too, churning out that boogaloo,

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    gets you up and gets you out, but how long can you keep it up?

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    Gimme honda, gimme sony,        so cheap and real phony,

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  Hong Kong dollars and Indian cents, English pounds and eskimo pence.

 

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You lot ! What ? Don’t stop ! Give it all you got !

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You lot ! What ? Don’t stop ! Yeah !       (2x)

 

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2. Working for a rise, better my station, take my baby to sophistication,

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she’s seen the ads, she thinks it’s nice, better work hard, I seen the price.

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Never mind that it’s time for the bus, we got to work and you’re one of us,

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    clocks go slow in a place of work, minutes drag and the hours jerk.

 

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3. Wave bub-bub-bub-bye to the boss, it’s our profit, it’s his loss,

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    but anyway the lunch bells ring, take one hour and do your ...

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    thanng !                  Cheeesboiger !

 

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4. What do we have for entertainment ?

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    Cops kickin gypsies on the pavement,

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    now the news, snap to attention,

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    the lunar landing of the dentist convention.

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    Italian mobster shoots a lobster, seafood restaurant gets out of hand,

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    a car in the fridge or a fridge in the car? Like cowboys do - in t.v. land.

 

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You lot ! What ? Don’t stop ! Give it all you got !

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You lot ! What ? Don’t stop ! Yeah !       (2x)

 

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5. So get back to work and sweat some more,

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    the sun will sink and we’ll get out the door.

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  it’s no good for man to work in cages, hits the town, he drinks his wages.

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    You’re frettin’, youre sweatin, but did you notice you ain’t getting’,

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    you’re frettin’, youre sweatin,

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    but did you notice you ain’t getting’ anywhere ?

 

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6. Don’t you ever stop long enough to start,  

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    to take your car outta that gear ?

 

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Don’t you ever stop long enough to start, to get your car outta that gear ?

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    Karlo Marx and Friedrich Engels came to the checkout at the 7-11,

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  Marx was skint, but he had sense, Engels lent him the necessary pence.

 

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    What have we got? Yeh-o !  What have we got? Yeh-o !

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    What have we got? Magnificence ! What have we got ?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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5. Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi,

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    went to the park to check on the game,

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    but they was murdered by the other team, who went on to win 50-nil.

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    You can be true, you can be false, you be given the same reward,

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    Socrates and Milhous Nixon,

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    both went the same way, through the kitchen.

 

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6. Plato the Greek or Rin Tin Tin,

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    who’s more famous to the billion millions?

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    News flash: vacuum cleaner sucks up budgie !

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    Oooohh, ow.                  Bye-bye.

 

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    (The Clash)